Country Costa Rica

Good Practices

Measuring broadband progress with an iterative process

Costa Rica’s broadband plan and its subsequent monitoring and evaluation methodology has set up the nation to achieve its digital connectivity goals, and also offers a framework for the country to regularly update its strategy.

Carmen Ferri
July 29, 2020

Good Practices

Closing the digital divide with universal service leadership

Until 2009, Costa Rica’s state-owned monopoly, the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, controlled all of the island nation’s telecommunications services. This monopoly ended when the Central American Free Trade Agreement came into force and opened up the country’s telecommunications sector to…

Carmen Ferri
September 18, 2019